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Confused about our water capacity issues in Waterloo Region? CTV has an explainer video:
www.ctvnews.ca/kitchener/vi...

#WaterCrisis #RegionofWaterloo
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We have options to protect our farmland, moraines and groundwater aquifers:
- A Bluebelt to protect critical water resources
- A Foodbelt as proposed by MPP Mike Schreiner
- An expansion of the Greenbelt

#WilmotLandGrab #WaterCrisis #WilmotTownship #RegionofWaterloo

@mikeschreiner.bsky.social

On Feb 18, Terry Pender wrote: "The drop in the water level in AFB2, the dying swamps and dry wells around Shingletown in Wilmot Township are warning signs that can’t be ignored, they say."

www.therecord.com/news/waterlo...

#WaterCrisis #WilmotTownship #RegionofWaterloo
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At Regional Council on Jan 28, Kevin Thomason asked:
“They have approved every water-taking permit, every gravel pit, forced this confounding mega-industrial site, and approved massive urban sprawl without a single study.”

#FightForFarmland #WilmotLandGrab #WaterCrisis
@kthomason.bsky.social

Take Action: Let the government know your thoughts about this massive water-taking to wash gravel potentially coming at such a high cost before March 6th
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#WaterCrisis #WilmotTownship #onpoli

More news about the #watercrisis in Waterloo Region. It will only be made worse by paving over 770 acres of farmland and the ridiculous water-taking permit by Esbaugh Sand and Gravel.

Email or call your government officials today:
wilmotcan.com/demandaction/

@therecord.com
#gravelpit

YouTube video by Wilmot Civic Action Network Keep Wilmot's rural feel and protect farmland - Wilmot Councillors' sound bites

Hear from the Township of Wilmot Council themselves: people want to protect the farmland and the rural feel of Wilmot.

youtu.be/zcUUZtqVWNg

#FightForFarmland #WilmotLandGrab #WilmotTownship

@wilmottownship.bsky.social

February 19, The Record spoke to MPP Mike Harris Jr who stated that development should not be stopped during the water crisis in Waterloo Region.

Developers are happy with the statement.

www.therecord.com/news/waterlo...

#FridayFacts #FridayFact #WaterCrisis #RegionofWaterloo
@therecord.com

On Jan 28, Kevin Thomason said, "Going through with the #WilmotLandGrab will forever change an entire rural municipality on a scale never seen here before, against the unwilling landowners, unwilling citizens, and an unwilling municipality."

#FightForFarmland
@kthomason.bsky.social

Development, water-taking permits, aggregate pits and now the Wilmot Land Assembly, have been forced on our communities.

#FightForFarmland #WilmotLandGrab #WaterCrisis #WilmotTownship
@regionofwaterloo.bsky.social

In Jan, we released a report about the threat to the farmland full of data & facts re how Wilmot Township, Waterloo Region & Ford have violated planning rules & threatened groundwater resources.
Stop this process.

#FightForFarmland #WilmotLandGrab #WaterCrisis #WilmotTownship #RegionofWaterloo

Happy #FamilyDay to the family farms in #WilmotTownship. The ones that feed our families.

If given the choice, would you take your family to visit an industrial mega-site or a family farm?

#FightForFarmland #WilmotLandGrab

Think about where your food comes from. From the land. From the farmers who toil every day.

Local & provincial governments want to build an industrial mega-site on prime Class 1 land.

Show 💚 today & email your councillors and MPP.

#FightForFarmland #ValentinesDay

This week, Waterloo Region was drilling at Snyders & Sandhills Roads in Wilmot Township - looking for more water wherever they can find it.

Andrew Wilson said in his delegation Jan 28, putting more straws into a glass doesn't give you more water.

#FridayFacts
#WaterCrisis #RegionofWaterloo

Coverage of the Regionof Waterloo #watercrisis has gone beyond local to national.

Yet the Region hasn't stopped the #WilmotLandGrab and is still talking about taking additional water from Wilmot Township.

#FightForFarmland
@wilmottownship.bsky.social

Cancelling the #WilmotLandGrab:
· Does NOT ban future employment lands in the proper location
· DOES protect taxpayers, residents, & Region’s credibility

#fightforfarmland
#watercrisis #wilmottownship

Harris government cuts & red-tape reduction lead directly to the Walkerton water crisis in the 1990s.

Harris Jr. then focused on cuts and red-tape reduction. Now we have a water crisis despite efforts & warnings by municipalities and local community groups.

#FridayFact #WaterCrisis #onpoli

Now's not the time to build an industrial mega-site. Media has been building since Nov 26 with Wilmot staffing issues and water issues in the Region. The Region's solution incl taking Wilmot water.

Ask your Councillors to stop the #WilmotLandGrab
wilmotcan.com/demandaction/

#wilmotlandgrab

Last week's council meeting featured three delegations to abandon the 770 #WilmotLandGrab, especially after the water crisis has come to light.

kitchener.citynews.ca/2026/01/29/p...

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#FightForFarmland #WaterCrisis #WilmotTownship

Placing a large, unknown industrial water user directly beside their supply wells creates risk:
· Constraining future growth
· Restrict their system
· Force them to absorb infrastructure or conservation measures to accommodate an industrial user

#WilmotLandGrab #WaterCrisis

The proposed industrial site in Wilmot is adjacent to:
🪣Major municipal wells
🌊The same connected aquifer system
🏗️ Infrastructure that supplies K-W, Cambridge, New Hamburg & Baden.

#FightForFarmland #WilmotLandGrab #WaterCrisis

John said: “When a municipality declares a growth pause due to water limitations, it is acknowledging that system resilience has been exceeded.
That changes the risk calculus for all major land and infrastructure decisions.”

#FightForFarmland #WilmotLandGrab #WaterCrisis

Would we be at a crisis level, if the Region didn't need to pump water from the Mannheim Service Area to Elmira? And they keep pushing for who-knows-what industry with unknown water needs for Wilmot?

Contact your councillor & demand they stop the #WilmotLandGrab.

#FridayFact #WaterCrisis

When minister of red tape, MPP Mike Harris Jr eliminated some reviews & public hearings for water-taking permits. His dad cut red tape & spending - it made the Walkerton water crisis worse.
www.therecord.com/news/waterlo...

#FightForFarmland #WilmotLandGrab
#WaterCrisis

Chair Redman talked about a lot of plans in her 2024 address. Where are the plans now? Because they all need water.

www.therecord.com/opinion/colu...

#FightForFarmland #WilmotLandGrab #WaterCrisis
@therecord.com
@farwell570.bsky.social

Support 4 delegations about the water, official plans and 770-acre land assembly Wed night at Regional Council meeting:
🎙️Kevin Thomason, Grand River Environmental Network
🎙️John Jordan, Wilmot
🎙️Gary Eagleson, Parkhill
🎙️Andrew Wilson, Wilmot

#FightForFarmland #WilmotLandGrab #WaterCrisis

Ford pushed the NDA on the @RegionWaterloo re #WilmotLandGrab. They're giving away water taking permits & not working w/ the local community. We now have a water & housing crisis. Next up: food crisis.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

@waterloompp.bsky.social
#FightForFarmland #WaterCrisis #onpoli

This is a MUST read for anyone in @Waterloo Region. We need to support our neighbours in the urban and rural areas.

This is one more reason that the Wilmot Land Grab makes no sense for our Region.

www.therecord.com/news/waterlo...

#FightForFarmland #WilmotLandGrab
@therecord.com

"The Region of Waterloo relies on aquifers for 80% of its water."
Depending on what maps you look at, the Waterloo Moraine abuts or overlaps the land of the #WilmotLandGrab. Is this where we want to build an industrial mega-site?

www.therecord.com/news/waterlo...

#FridayFact
#FightForFarmland

A decision needs to be made about making the sale of more acreage of the 770 #WilmotLandGrab in February.

Join us on Wednesday, January 28 at the Regional Council meeting to show your support for Regional Council to just say NO.

#FightForFarmland
#WilmotLandGrab